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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
No one has said it is funny. It's interesting how so many people in the Cabinet who said yes to the agreement now find it unacceptable.  |
Interesting, in that this is how cabinet government is supposed to work. The Brexit shenanigans of the last few months have perhaps made us forget that cabinet is supposed to debate and agree a position on something and then all members of the cabinet unite behind it in public, as the jointly agreed position, regardless of what their personal views on it were.
Government cannot function if there are constant abstentions, briefings and rebellions on issues that are supposed to be agreed and promoted by cabinet.
On rare occasions, when a prime minister is exceptionally powerful - being, for example, newly installed as a result of a general election or a members leadership ballot - then the PM has the personal authority to do what Boris has just done, namely to put together an entirely new cabinet with job offers explicitly contingent on the platform he has just won on, namely Brexit on 31 October, come hell or high water.
Even then, however, it is not surprising that individuals who previously backed the WA are calling it unacceptable now. That is the agreed cabinet position, and that is how cabinet is supposed to work.